Listen to the show, drop an email before the 3rd May 2008 to the competition@ubuntu-uk.org email address with your answer to the question we ask. We’ll ask Mark Shuttleworth to pick a winner at random from the correct entries and then email the coupon code over to the winner.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986

[…] I was very happy to accept an invite from Alan Pope of the Ubuntu UK Screencasting team last weekend to do an interview for their monthly podcast (ogg/mp3s here). […]

On 04.24.08 Novus wrote these pithy words:

You can make sudo timestamps_timeout=0 so that you will always be prompted for the password everytime.

$sudo visudo

in there add
,timestamps_timeout=0
at the end of the line that begins with Defaults
DONE. save and exit (remove .tmp from the filename when saving)

On 04.25.08 Kennedy808 wrote these pithy words:

Great show as usual. Minor request: Can the Genre in the ID3 tag be set to Podcast rather than Vocal? When the genre shows Podcast, the episode shows up in the Podcasts menu of my Archos mp3 player. Otherwise I have to hunt it down by album or artist. Thanks

For technical segments, I agree that spelling out long command line strings is pretty dull. What you could do is simply put the commands in the show notes and reference them while you’re talking. (eg. “As you can see in command (1) …”) Or it would also be cool if you embedded the commands in the id3/vorbiscomment tags 😉

nick

On 05.02.08 Kevin wrote these pithy words:

love the show!
in episode 3, one of you mentioned running windows programs using virtualbox, but using ‘unified mode’. this sounds like something i’d like to try. i’m currently running windows in virtualbox, but i’ve searched all over the net and i can’t find any info on this ‘unified mode’ that you speak of. if someone could point me to some info, or maybe it’s ‘officially’ called something else. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Great segment on security. I feel that security is not being given the attention it needs in the world of libre software. And I mean as in policy rather than in code. I have always felt a bit uneasy with sudo, and even more so with just adding some random repository or Firefox plugin. I think libre software will have it’s wake up call when the user base reaches a certain threshold. On the other hand, I’m also convinced that the community is strong enough to overcome it.